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At my last workplace it was fun choosing oddly specific reaction emojis for comments.

Like I loaded a gif of a dumpster fire and used it as emoji. I uploaded a picture of my face to use as an emoji. I uploaded the "It's free real estate!" guy.

Yes, I'm 33, my coworkers were younger but I have the meme knowledge of someone 2/3rds my age due to endless reddit scrolling, thank you. I can keep up with the kids.

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That's great, that's fun. What's the business value of using gifs in business discussion though? I thought they were almost exclusively used for emotional expression only.

Emotional expression is an important component of high bandwidth business communication.

I find myself using the :poop: emoji a lot...

I am both bemused and somewhat concerned that you seems to hold the belief that "business discussions" are conducted outside of the realm of "emotional expression".

I'm 44... and most of this isn't really all that new... sure, now we have unicode characters instead of :-) but this stuff started all the way back in the 80's.

Eternal September.

Perhaps you're unaware of the panoply of extremely postmodern memes that come out every week in the darkest crevices of the internet?

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